Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF
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The article discusses a cost-saving update regarding AWS CloudFront and AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall).
Specifically, the article covers:
- Effective October 25, 2024, CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF.
- This change means CloudFront customers won't incur request fees or data transfer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF.
- No changes are required to applications to benefit from this update.
- This applies to all CloudFront distributions using AWS WAF.
- AWS WAF will continue billing for evaluating and blocking requests.
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